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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Michael Watkins who wrote (150742)11/2/2004 11:39:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
It carefully does not translate the moderate articles.

That is quite untrue as you would know if you ever read MEMRI, instead of merely hunting for Arab opinion of it. They routinely publish both the bad and the good. Eg, Articles praising The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (not hard to find at all! and in Al Ahram and other MAJOR newspapers!) AND articles written by liberal, moderate Arabs.

For example, if you look at MEMRI right now, one of their two headlined articles is:

Progressive Columnist: 'Bin Laden's Tape is a Tape of Capitulation and Bankruptcy'

Progressive columnist Dr. Mamoun Fandy wrote an article in the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram titled 'Bin Laden Votes for John Kerry: A Tape of Admission, Voting and Capitulation.' The following are excerpts from the article: [1]
memri.org

A moderate, progressive article running in Al Ahram. Not cherry picked to make Arabs look bad at all.

The sad fact for the Arabs is that if you simply read the headlines in their own English language papers, eg. Al Ahram or the Arab News, you read an enormous amount of conspiracy theory and anti-Semitic crap. And that's what they publish in English! (to be fair, Jordan Times and Beirut Daily Star are considerably better). It makes MEMRIs selection look entirely believable. MEMRI footnotes everything, btw. You can see for yourself what sort of paper is publishing it.
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